Note that my interpretation of the rules is that the centre dot should be used for clarification for Ski-O controls where it is required, not necessarily for the whole course.

The newer 2010 MTB rules makes this very clear by having 2 different symbols, the dotted circle for where it is needed and the empty one for other places (702 and 840).

I am a bit puzzled why the Ski-O one is 810 - maybe there is a different range of circle dimensions for the two. There is a slight variation in size of centre dot I suppose. The other difference is nasty - when layering colours the Purple circle should be below the Green colour used for the Ski-O tracks, but the centre-dot has to be ABOVE the Green so it can be seen ... I don't know about MTB-O w.r.t this.

I guess ideally I'd like to see all courses have a default circle of no-dot with the option to change on a per-control basis (an additional per-course default might also be appropriate). I include Foot-O in this only since for some types of lower-key micro-sprints I have used centre-dot in the past so I didn't need to provide control descriptions.

Apart from the centre-dot are there any other differences between Ski-O and Foot-O in CONDES? Availability of equipment change for instance?

I too would like to see the centre dot as optional for each control - in our case for a score event (rogaine). These maps are often about 1:30,000 and th edot helps when placing controls on some features.

If you are using Condes 9, you can configure each control individually to have a dot in the centre of the circle.

To configure this, select the control circle, then use the menu Control / Control circle to get to the Control Circle dialog. In this dialog, you can configure the dot at the centre, as well as the colour and line width for the circle. You can also configure if the circle should have a white outline on the circle and whether the control number should have a white outline. All of these settings override the overall settings for the canvas.

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